Livingston, Walter (1740-1797) to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00228 Author/Creator: Livingston, Walter (1740-1797) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 13 December 1775 Pagination: 1p.+addr. 20.6 cm. x 16.3 cm. Order a Copy
Recommends distributing the horses over more sleighs in order to transport the artillery. Knox was then on a mission to bring British artillery pieces captured from the British earlier that year at Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Livingston was then serving on the commissary of stores and provisions for the department of New York.
[draft]
Walter Livingston
Sir
The bearer can [provide] four pair of horses to carry one of the largest cannon but would rather go with two sleighs and two pair of horses to each - I believe there will be a defficient number engaged by evening to carry the lighter cannon if you can persuade him to go with [four] horses he will take an order for one of the largest -
Your Humle Servt
Walter Livinston
[address leaf]
To Mr [illegible]
Colo Knox -
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